@@bigboytoyz541actually depending on the exercise he was using it correctly. Also those are the security supports, when doing max load on squats they're supposed to hold the loaded bar in case the person is unable to stand up from the squat position, no matter if they have all the plates available on the bar it should hold. The squat rack should be fully secured to the ground for the users safety, it was incredibly irresponsible of the gym to not do it. At the gym I go to I've seen security side bars, like those, hold 250kg and the rack didn't even twitch.
You can see after it flips, the frame has bolt holes on the base of the verticals. That means you have to tapcon them into the concrete floor, not just free floating. Every piece of equipment is bolted down in my gym.
If you look closely he actually did stop the weights themselves from falling, but the rack just spun around it just from inertia. Honestly pretty impressive strength
@@donnielzeh8457I mean, 99 times out of 100, if you see something falling at the gym, it's going to be a weight/bar that was improperly racked, not the entire rack falling over. I think he can be forgiven for making the wrong split second decision
@@MrH4nkyif you don't understand levers. Then yes it was used properly. Every piece of equipment, body included, have thresholds of safety you need to account for.
He wasn't using it properly. Intentionally overweighting equipment is not proper use. There are warnings for weight limits. This is a classic survival of the fittest. You may be a little strong(not strong enough here) but you're also not smart either. No brains and no brawns
@@imuw5408 And you dont understand that those "levers" is designed to hold that bar filled up with all the plates he can find in the gym, you logic only makes sense if he used an equipment that was not designed for that. No resonable person goes " nope that too much weight on those arms, i know this is what its designed for but nope cant do that" where you dropped on your head as a child or something?
Most impressed that Ugo knew the correct technical names for all of the equipment. A lot of people will casually call it a power rack but doohickey is the proper name.
the doohickey is called a power rack, for anyone interested. They are absolutely meant to be bolted down. Guy is super lucky this didn't happen on a squat bail.
I've never seen a power rack configured with cantilever rails like that. Normally the rails are on the inside, so it's impossible for a weight on the rails to push the centre of gravity outside of the power rack's footprint.
@@UgoLordplease answer me this. When officers arrest people they SCREAM, YELL & CURSE at them. But if l scream, yell or curse at them l get penalized?
Lethal risks and reckless endangerment are most definitely grounds for a lawsuit even if no one was injured. If it wasn't this way, we could all lethally endanger our fellow people all day long as much as we want and no one could do anything about unless we actually hurt someone. That is not the case.
@@KNC2879Well, if the gym is being negligent it’s still putting its members at risk, so I don’t think it would be unjust to find a way to make them pay for it
@@UgoLord You can get a new client with practically any situation :) hehe Ugo "Does your back Hurt?" Gym guy "No". Ugo "Oh yes, your back hurts extremely bad (Wink)" Gym guy "got'cha, let's do this" Hand shake :)
@@cheeseeygamer2997 if that were me, I'd have definitely just seen God. I don't know about therapy, but I'd be spending the next few days admiring the flowers a bit more closely.
I actually talked about emotional distress my the longer TikTok version! Emotional distress is very difficult to prove without damages. If he’s able to find a psychiatrist to testify that he has PTSD and if that trauma caused him to miss work (or some other damages), then it’s possible, but the damages are very small. 😅. Someone on Instagram gave an example of a career bodybuilder no longer being able to go back to the gym… Those would be significant damages because now he has lost his career. That hypothetical would likely be a successful lawsuit for a negligent infliction of emotional distress!
That's a squat rack. You can see they bolt spots on the floor pieces that you're supposed to bolt INTO the gym floor to keep people safe. You can also get stabilisers that distribute the weight over the entire area of three sides if you don't want to bolt it to the floor! I insisted we pay an extra £150 for stabilisers when my partner bought his because it's so stinking dangerous otherwise
There are some (workplace) laws that require close calls to be reported so that you do not need injuries or deaths to happen before problems like this are fixed.
Another thing to consider is that a lot of gyms require you to sign a waiver that makes you liable for any injury you incur in the gym if you’re a member.
There's a lot of factors to take into when installing and manufacturing these contractions. Even if the screws were properly installed, he placed the weight at the very end of the beams which increased the strain moment further which can cause the bolts to break from their sockets. Highly unlikely for this to happen but if this were the case, the gym isn't at fault but the manufacturer who didn't properly calculate all the necessary strain. Either that, or they saved money by using a lower standard than required. The gym would have all the rights to sue the person or company responsible for making this contraption
Gym owner for years. Basically unless the person did something so stupid that a jury or judge would be like “nah dude that’s on you” them you’re liable for everything and everyone in that building. Don’t let your kids on the floor. Please.
Wouldn't it be a violation/negligence of a safety regulation standard for a gym business to not install equipment correctly/not providing safe conditions? Surely they can be in trouble before someone gets injured by inspectors, to prevent it in the first place.
@@rep-vile inspectors, no. But if there’s an accident and damages because we didn’t install it properly then we’re good and screwed. This gym owner is definitely at fault. There was one incident that stays in my mind. A cop didn’t secure his cable machine when he started doing tricep push-downs. He didn’t fasten the pin. It split his head open pretty badly. He got dizzy and his partner refused to let him drive. Took him to the hospital and needed several stitches. He was a good guy and good friend of ours. He said he didn’t fasten it properly and he refused to push the issue. That one could have gone either way. It’s hard to fasten a pin incorrectly. I don’t know what happened and I watched it.
@@christopherparks2987 I doubt that could ever have been ruled as the fault of the gym unless there was something else wrong with it aswell. There was a safety system for the machine but the cop dident use it so no reson to even try to sue the gym for that. If something like that could be sued for then every gym would need ppl on the floor walking around at all times to make sure everyone uses the gear correctly to avoid a lawsuit. If not u know some jackass would not use the stopper on one side of a bar for example when doing a lift to try and cause a minor accident and sue for it.
@@Shiftry87 the issue is being able to prove it. Gotta convince a jury the cop used a pin wrong. And old pin on an old machine with faulty cables. I should specify it was my parents that owned it. I wasn’t allowed to improve things. I left the business because the risks made me very unhappy and I viewed it as an evil practice. It’s under new management now so the members aren’t at risk of death.
@@christopherparks2987 Plus look at the rack. He emptied out all the weights, which is most likely part of what keeps it in balance. Get your plates from different racks (keeping weight on the back) if you plan on putting that much weight on the front of it.
@@SilverMe2004Easy. The guy was filming himself lifting that thing. That means he wasn't in pain until the moment it fell and screamed: "Ouch! My back!" Or at least he should have shouted that.
I don't think I've ever seen a gym with squat racks bolted to the floor. There's a number of reasons not to, primarily because they're renting the property, and most racks won't tip like this. That's probably a very cheap rack. It seems very small and light compared to what I usually see.
@@DonaldDump2024 so that you can re-arrange it later. Also if you use the rack properly, as in keeping the weight INSIDE the rack then you don't need to bolt it down.
@@nilloc93 Using safety arms outside the rack is a perfectly proper way to use a rack. Thats what those arms are designed for. A gym always needs to bolt racks down, what you do at home is your choice.
@@rocksmo3384 tbh I'd be interested to see a gym that has actually bolted down their squat racks, I've never seen it done. I'm pretty sure this is just a very cheap and lightweight rack. You're right that this is an acceptable use of the rack.
The alternative is to warn the user about balancing. I’ve been to gyms with these (not sure if they were bolted down or not) but they have signs up to warning people to balance the weights across the equipment for safety. It isn’t hard to put a sign up.
To be clear it's not enough to just bolt down squat racks; they need to be properly anchored into the concrete. When selecting concrete anchors for a rack it's important to consider the maximum physical capacity of the rack, the weight of the rack itself, and place that could hold the bar even if they're not intended to.
Suspect the equipment has a manufacturer rating already applied, but that should exceed the bars ability to overload it when installed correctly. Bar at 40kg plus a full load of 20kg plates would be around 400kg safe working load.
You can clearly see the empty slots at the bottom of the rack's legs where the anchoring bolts were supposed to go. The equipment is designed for power lifting. It MUST be bolted down. The part of the rack he placed the bar on is supposed to be able to take that much weight crashing down on it in a lifting emergency (where the lifter drops the weight away from their body bc they can't safely rack it). It has to be able to control that mass to also protect bystanders. Dude in video is extremely fortunate he wasn't injured and then dropped the bar on an unstable rack 😲
@@punchkitten874 yes, excalty. It not only must withstand the weight of barbell, but the force this barbell would cause when the athlete droppes the barbell on it in case of emergency.
I think there should be something like with the takata airbag class action Which was made not based on the grounds of damage but the unacceptable risks taken with other people's safety in order to avoid expenses
No. Courts are very hesitant to award damages for mental anguish when there are no quantifiable damages of a physical nature. We've all had close calls, we know what happens. You get an adrenaline spike, your heart races, and you're back to normal within around 3 minutes give or take. There is pretty much no situation where having a close call like this creates long-term psychological issues or emotional distress that would warrant the award of any damages.
@@connman8d617 You’re right in terms of enforcement, but he’s still right in terms of what the law says. Just like how even though someone going 1mph over the speed limit isn’t going to actually get a ticket, they’re still technically speeding
Friend slipped and fell on a water puddle, without the wet area signs, in a theater. We called a lawyer. My friend wasnt hurt so the lawyer said we couldn’t sue.
Mental anguish from that thing falling never trusting it again therefore alot more strain from lifting weights and stopping the lifting part would be even greater mental anguish
@frankd2624 I think he was trying to roll it backwards to the original resting position, but it was already too late, and with that stance almost certainly too little anyways. 😁
It'd be incredibly hard to prove. Probably cost more in therapist bills to get the diagnosis of PTSD or whatever, than he would actually get from winning a case
@@trmullins2 you'd have to get an actual diagnosis as well. If your therapist can't determine that it resulted in a psychiatric illness, which has caused you to miss work you won't be able to claim anything
@attorneys work closely with certsin therapists, chiropractors etc. They know to get paid what they have to say and they will say anything that cant blowback on them zareien2290
@@davids8994 In that situation your mind will most likely assume that the reason it's falling is due to the weight and go to secure it. Another reason could be that he didn't want the weight rollin off if he held the structure possibly falling on his leg
Now sit down, because this may very well come as a shock... It's actually possible to go to the gym and get into peak physical condition without ever once using any of the doohickeys or bothering to learn their names. I know. I was as surprised as you, but here we are.
Why are gym bros so insufferable lol? I go to the gym quite often and don’t know the name of most of the doohickeys either. I just do my workout and leave
Bolted down and had the proper cross bars. Power racks are supposed to have the variable crossbars that affix between the frame so the weight stays within the frame. Those safety bars were likely cannibalized from another rack intended for lighter weight.
He had quite a few plates on there. Some gyms ban power lifting as it can be damaging to the floors. So maybe he wouldn’t be allowed to have that much weight
As someone who frequents the gym I can confirm this guy is uninformed on how to properly use a squat rack. You always make sure there is counterweight to counterbalance the squat rack or that squat rack itself is bolted into the floor.
This is a safety feature improperly installed. He had the weight on the safety bars, which are there to save your life when you can't get the weight up and off you. This can cause tipping, so the rack is supposed to be bolted to the floor or otherwise secured. The risk was known, the mitigation is standard even for home gyms. This is negligence, and that man could've died.
Question: would it be possible for the dude to go the manufacturer of the equipment and sue the gym through the manufacturer? The reasoning could be something like ‘the inappropriate use of our equipment has brought negative impact upon our market reputation, hindering our chances for further sales. Thus we demand bla bla dollars in compensation for our damaged reputation and for the potential profits that were lost’
Gym equipment has a weight limit in holding positions. So Yes it has to be bolted down to the ground but there's still a point to where it will only be able to hold certain amount of weight certain position.
The gym is liable and LUCKY there were no damages that happen next!
Yes!! Well said!!!!
Actually he wasn't using this properly
@@bigboytoyz541actually depending on the exercise he was using it correctly. Also those are the security supports, when doing max load on squats they're supposed to hold the loaded bar in case the person is unable to stand up from the squat position, no matter if they have all the plates available on the bar it should hold. The squat rack should be fully secured to the ground for the users safety, it was incredibly irresponsible of the gym to not do it. At the gym I go to I've seen security side bars, like those, hold 250kg and the rack didn't even twitch.
@@UgoLordwhat if he had trauma from it or something?
@@Lii__ I agree they should always be bolted down. But he never should have been loading the weight on that safety bar.
The gym equipment should sue the gym.
The equipment gym should sue the gym equipment for suing the gym
@@ImAnixitydid you tell sue and Jim?
I know a few Jewish attorneys. Need a referral ⁉️
the man’s knees should sue his elbows.
The weights should sue the man
You can see after it flips, the frame has bolt holes on the base of the verticals. That means you have to tapcon them into the concrete floor, not just free floating. Every piece of equipment is bolted down in my gym.
honestly, you should use a wedge, sleeve, or drop in anchor.
but a few tap-cons probably would have held it down, In this circumstance.
that is also what i noticed, not tapcon
Not tapcons
Even the weights and the dumbbells?
Don't use tapcones for that tho but yeah there are holes cuz it was designed to be bolted down.
If you look closely he actually did stop the weights themselves from falling, but the rack just spun around it just from inertia. Honestly pretty impressive strength
But he doesnt know much about leverage
@@donnielzeh8457I mean, 99 times out of 100, if you see something falling at the gym, it's going to be a weight/bar that was improperly racked, not the entire rack falling over. I think he can be forgiven for making the wrong split second decision
He probably would have been hurt by the bar rolling if he hadn't held it before everything tipped
@@donnielzeh8457 He probably didn't notice that the equipment wasn't bolted down like it was supposed to be. He also should be wearing shoes
@@donnielzeh8457 Not everyone's an engineering graduate
That also means that the gym member is not liable for the damages to the gym equipment either.
If they use them correctly the way it is supposed to be use
@@wabalaka1565imean, yeah. It was the intended use
@@MrH4nkyif you don't understand levers. Then yes it was used properly. Every piece of equipment, body included, have thresholds of safety you need to account for.
He wasn't using it properly. Intentionally overweighting equipment is not proper use. There are warnings for weight limits. This is a classic survival of the fittest. You may be a little strong(not strong enough here) but you're also not smart either. No brains and no brawns
@@imuw5408 And you dont understand that those "levers" is designed to hold that bar filled up with all the plates he can find in the gym, you logic only makes sense if he used an equipment that was not designed for that.
No resonable person goes " nope that too much weight on those arms, i know this is what its designed for but nope cant do that" where you dropped on your head as a child or something?
That makes the doohickey liable for being a contraption.
😂😂 you can tell I use this Doohickey a lot 😂
Lol both these comments are awesome
@@UgoLordthanks for commenting and replying to CZcams comments like you do :) it's awesome to see
@UgoLord ...or we are paying attention to big strong buff things instead 😂
@@UgoLord Fun fact: That "doohickey" is called a barbell, and it's used in exercises like the bench press and the deadlift, among other exercises.
Most impressed that Ugo knew the correct technical names for all of the equipment. A lot of people will casually call it a power rack but doohickey is the proper name.
We call them "Cage Thingies" in the UK.
I learn something every day. 😎
I love how his inner lawyer kicked in and suggested that he might've hurt his back😂😂😂
real lawyer reaction😂😂
the doohickey is called a power rack, for anyone interested. They are absolutely meant to be bolted down. Guy is super lucky this didn't happen on a squat bail.
I think he did bail. And used the rack exactly as it was meant to be used
Pretty sure you're supposed to be in the cage for a power rack but, eh, should've been bolted down.
Did notice the arm of the rack was loose too? He was very lucky.
I've never seen a power rack configured with cantilever rails like that. Normally the rails are on the inside, so it's impossible for a weight on the rails to push the centre of gravity outside of the power rack's footprint.
The four bolt holes in each foot screams it should have been bolted down.
It makes the gym NOT LIABLE for all the damages that never happened
Thats a very funny one man i hope Ugo sees it 😂
It makes the gym LIABLE for all the damages than never happened.
Technically, the gym would be liable for all the damages. There were just no damages!!
I read it in my own voice! 😂😂 love this!! Hahaha
@@UgoLordplease answer me this. When officers arrest people they SCREAM, YELL & CURSE at them. But if l scream, yell or curse at them l get penalized?
That last line shows how devious lawyers can be if they wanna be .😅...glad this guy is one of the good ones😅
Lethal risks and reckless endangerment are most definitely grounds for a lawsuit even if no one was injured.
If it wasn't this way, we could all lethally endanger our fellow people all day long as much as we want and no one could do anything about unless we actually hurt someone. That is not the case.
Bro was thinking “ How did I not die”. 😂😂😂
Cause it's mostly hollow?
@@airacummins5076 I’m just looking at his facial expression
Bro was not thinking at all lmao. Trying to stop something from falling by pushing up on the bottom is dumb as fuck.
He was checking his camera. If it's ok.
@@Rynjinivar he held onto the weight and kept it on the safeties, looks like a job well done to me
I like how he really turned on his lawyer brain at the end. "Are you sure your back isn't hurt?" 😂
"Now think carefully now before answering"
"You know what.. It does and i was soo emotionally traumatized i am having trouble sleeping"
@@Paulmnl LMAO gotta get that check somehow 😭
That right there is what's wrong with the world.
@@KNC2879Well, if the gym is being negligent it’s still putting its members at risk, so I don’t think it would be unjust to find a way to make them pay for it
i love lawyers, man. "the only problem: no damages"
Could get a lawsuit from a safety inspector
That sneaky "hmm" at the end 😂
You saw that? 😉 😂
@@UgoLord You can get a new client with practically any situation :) hehe Ugo "Does your back Hurt?" Gym guy "No". Ugo "Oh yes, your back hurts extremely bad (Wink)" Gym guy "got'cha, let's do this" Hand shake :)
@@galaxiedance3135might be a joke - but this side of humanity is ugly.
If I ever have a case, I'm hiring this guy!
@@galaxiedance3135
He's not an ugolord lawyer. He's an UGOLORD lawyer!
Can he sue for all the EMOTIONAL DAMAGE that happened next ?
Would have to prove emotional damage such as having to take time off work or going to a therapist
@@cheeseeygamer2997 if that were me, I'd have definitely just seen God. I don't know about therapy, but I'd be spending the next few days admiring the flowers a bit more closely.
Only if they have Asian parents
He doesn't appear to be shook up.
I actually talked about emotional distress my the longer TikTok version! Emotional distress is very difficult to prove without damages. If he’s able to find a psychiatrist to testify that he has PTSD and if that trauma caused him to miss work (or some other damages), then it’s possible, but the damages are very small. 😅. Someone on Instagram gave an example of a career bodybuilder no longer being able to go back to the gym… Those would be significant damages because now he has lost his career. That hypothetical would likely be a successful lawsuit for a negligent infliction of emotional distress!
That's a squat rack. You can see they bolt spots on the floor pieces that you're supposed to bolt INTO the gym floor to keep people safe. You can also get stabilisers that distribute the weight over the entire area of three sides if you don't want to bolt it to the floor!
I insisted we pay an extra £150 for stabilisers when my partner bought his because it's so stinking dangerous otherwise
Bro, the man didn't ran away, he was trying to lift this like one punch man😂😂😂
those bolt plates on the equipment are not there for decoration.
Yeah they didn't bolt it down at all
They're just there to make sure they install the bottom at the bottom. Lol
Lol,I like how at the end "unless he hurt his back....mmmm???" Like you're implying "hey, if you want to sue, call your boy" lol
😉 😉 😂
YASSS!!!! That nonverbal cue!
Lifting racks are usually bolted to the ground if I’m not mistaken
I'm sure you can still sue for the POTENTIAL of damages, like you feel unsafe in the gym and are sticking up for the next guy
Love all the gym jargon's: doohickey, contraption 😂
These are the technical legal terms for them! 😂
@@UgoLord An engineer would call that a thingamabob
Say less, big fella start screaming "MY BACK MY BACK" if you get the drift.
😂😂😂
Yeah but he didn't jump across buildings yelling "I'm back I'm back." Tho.
Gym bro's don't scream or whine unnecessarily.
There are some (workplace) laws that require close calls to be reported so that you do not need injuries or deaths to happen before problems like this are fixed.
Another thing to consider is that a lot of gyms require you to sign a waiver that makes you liable for any injury you incur in the gym if you’re a member.
Nobody ever mentions Ugo's excellent shirts.
This might be my favorite comment ever! My family hates my style 😂
@@UgoLordare people so boring that they think men should wear shades of plain black and grey? Put some COLOR and patterns on!
@UgoLord I mean, if it's a sibling, they are contractually obligated by birth to heckle your clothes.
Yeah, that last line is definitely thinking like a lawyer. Haha
lmao devious lawyer content
There's a lot of factors to take into when installing and manufacturing these contractions. Even if the screws were properly installed, he placed the weight at the very end of the beams which increased the strain moment further which can cause the bolts to break from their sockets. Highly unlikely for this to happen but if this were the case, the gym isn't at fault but the manufacturer who didn't properly calculate all the necessary strain. Either that, or they saved money by using a lower standard than required. The gym would have all the rights to sue the person or company responsible for making this contraption
That contraption is called a squat rack. They are usually bolted down.
The way he said "a really strong buff guy" 🤣🤣
I think someone is talking interest...
Gym owner for years. Basically unless the person did something so stupid that a jury or judge would be like “nah dude that’s on you” them you’re liable for everything and everyone in that building.
Don’t let your kids on the floor. Please.
Wouldn't it be a violation/negligence of a safety regulation standard for a gym business to not install equipment correctly/not providing safe conditions?
Surely they can be in trouble before someone gets injured by inspectors, to prevent it in the first place.
@@rep-vile inspectors, no. But if there’s an accident and damages because we didn’t install it properly then we’re good and screwed. This gym owner is definitely at fault.
There was one incident that stays in my mind. A cop didn’t secure his cable machine when he started doing tricep push-downs. He didn’t fasten the pin. It split his head open pretty badly. He got dizzy and his partner refused to let him drive. Took him to the hospital and needed several stitches. He was a good guy and good friend of ours. He said he didn’t fasten it properly and he refused to push the issue. That one could have gone either way. It’s hard to fasten a pin incorrectly. I don’t know what happened and I watched it.
@@christopherparks2987 I doubt that could ever have been ruled as the fault of the gym unless there was something else wrong with it aswell. There was a safety system for the machine but the cop dident use it so no reson to even try to sue the gym for that. If something like that could be sued for then every gym would need ppl on the floor walking around at all times to make sure everyone uses the gear correctly to avoid a lawsuit. If not u know some jackass would not use the stopper on one side of a bar for example when doing a lift to try and cause a minor accident and sue for it.
@@Shiftry87 the issue is being able to prove it. Gotta convince a jury the cop used a pin wrong. And old pin on an old machine with faulty cables.
I should specify it was my parents that owned it. I wasn’t allowed to improve things. I left the business because the risks made me very unhappy and I viewed it as an evil practice.
It’s under new management now so the members aren’t at risk of death.
@@christopherparks2987 Plus look at the rack. He emptied out all the weights, which is most likely part of what keeps it in balance. Get your plates from different racks (keeping weight on the back) if you plan on putting that much weight on the front of it.
The anxiety I felt during this was off the charts! Thankfully the guy was ok but for a split second I thought something bad was going to happen
Once a week, I enjoy hearing you talk.
I'm really glad he was ok, also watching this made my back hurt 😂
😂
"All of a sudden my back hurts"
the problem is you would have to prove the pain isn't form using the equipment before it moved.
@@SilverMe2004Easy. The guy was filming himself lifting that thing. That means he wasn't in pain until the moment it fell and screamed: "Ouch! My back!" Or at least he should have shouted that.
Depends on the state. In NJ you can sue for up to $5k for emotional distress in small claims court.
That makes the weight rack LIABLE for any damages that happen next!👩🏻💼👆
It makes the gym liable for bolting that thing to the floor like they should’ve in the first place.
Right. I bolted my gym equipment to the floor in my basement. Why wouldn’t a gym?? 🤔
I don't think I've ever seen a gym with squat racks bolted to the floor. There's a number of reasons not to, primarily because they're renting the property, and most racks won't tip like this. That's probably a very cheap rack. It seems very small and light compared to what I usually see.
@@DonaldDump2024 so that you can re-arrange it later. Also if you use the rack properly, as in keeping the weight INSIDE the rack then you don't need to bolt it down.
@@nilloc93 Using safety arms outside the rack is a perfectly proper way to use a rack. Thats what those arms are designed for. A gym always needs to bolt racks down, what you do at home is your choice.
@@rocksmo3384 tbh I'd be interested to see a gym that has actually bolted down their squat racks, I've never seen it done.
I'm pretty sure this is just a very cheap and lightweight rack.
You're right that this is an acceptable use of the rack.
Love this dudes energy
You’re the best!
I like his older videos better. He would yell, "That makes the [insert noun here]... LIABLE!!!". lol
The alternative is to warn the user about balancing. I’ve been to gyms with these (not sure if they were bolted down or not) but they have signs up to warning people to balance the weights across the equipment for safety. It isn’t hard to put a sign up.
make sure you preserve features like the nose or your eyes when applying video skin smoothing
If Ugo takes this case, I hope he doesn't keep referring to it as a doohickey.
that could’ve ended bad
So bad!
To be clear it's not enough to just bolt down squat racks; they need to be properly anchored into the concrete. When selecting concrete anchors for a rack it's important to consider the maximum physical capacity of the rack, the weight of the rack itself, and place that could hold the bar even if they're not intended to.
Glad this guy was OK. That's a lot of weight, and things can go very wrong when it's falling/moving the way it shouldn't.
Bro thought he was the hulk trying to stop the rack from falling 😂
If he had more time to react and grabbed the top bar instead of the barbell he could have
Looks more like was trying to stop the bar from flying off. Super quick thinking to keep a large mass from becoming uncontrollable.
I think he did everything right. Controlled the lifts, stayed inside and didn't get hurt. Nothing happened, then he did everything right.
@@punchkitten874 yeah you're probably right. Just a bit of a risky thing to do. But nobody got hurt so it doesn't matter
“This… doohickey…” “that… contraption!” Lol I love this 🤣🤣🤣
Sneaky sneaky lol. Gotta love him for being honest yet blunt for His pay
Love this lawyer! 😂 thank you.
Securing gym equipment with thoughts and prayers didn't work out so well.
Contraption 😂 is a great word for squat rack 😉. The twist at the end 🤣🤣
He just gave that guy the answers on how to be rich. I swear I love this guy.
In the UK you can sue for emotional negligible and trauma
And that makes the gym LIABLE, for all the emotional damages that happened next!
Ugo instigating at the end there 😂🤑
My man I already knew you swung that way but to see you compliment the man on his strength and muscles…. Idk it’s just so cute I might cry😭
I’m just glad he had the safe spot instead of running into it
The gym can also give a weight limit of the equipment so that if the person overload it, they are responsible for that accident.
Suspect the equipment has a manufacturer rating already applied, but that should exceed the bars ability to overload it when installed correctly.
Bar at 40kg plus a full load of 20kg plates would be around 400kg safe working load.
You can clearly see the empty slots at the bottom of the rack's legs where the anchoring bolts were supposed to go. The equipment is designed for power lifting. It MUST be bolted down. The part of the rack he placed the bar on is supposed to be able to take that much weight crashing down on it in a lifting emergency (where the lifter drops the weight away from their body bc they can't safely rack it). It has to be able to control that mass to also protect bystanders. Dude in video is extremely fortunate he wasn't injured and then dropped the bar on an unstable rack 😲
@@punchkitten874 yes, excalty. It not only must withstand the weight of barbell, but the force this barbell would cause when the athlete droppes the barbell on it in case of emergency.
That’s why I hate small personally owned gyms
The thing is I saw the original video of this and the guy is the owner of the gym lol
I think there should be something like with the takata airbag class action
Which was made not based on the grounds of damage but the unacceptable risks taken with other people's safety in order to avoid expenses
The lawyer forgot that the gym is liable for Emotional damage
No. Courts are very hesitant to award damages for mental anguish when there are no quantifiable damages of a physical nature. We've all had close calls, we know what happens. You get an adrenaline spike, your heart races, and you're back to normal within around 3 minutes give or take. There is pretty much no situation where having a close call like this creates long-term psychological issues or emotional distress that would warrant the award of any damages.
@@connman8d617Emotional damage is a pun used by a CZcamsr channel called Steven He ...his tag line in his videos is Emotional damage
See the Wilkinson v Downton rule
@@connman8d617 You’re right in terms of enforcement, but he’s still right in terms of what the law says. Just like how even though someone going 1mph over the speed limit isn’t going to actually get a ticket, they’re still technically speeding
me scared 😟 me want money 😢
somebody teach this guy about mechanical advantage called leverage
it was a near miss, and it is def still 100% the gyms responsibility to fix it, especially since future incidents like this might not be as lucky
What about damage to mental health? Maybe if it had stressed him out with the hours/days after this?
Friend slipped and fell on a water puddle, without the wet area signs, in a theater. We called a lawyer. My friend wasnt hurt so the lawyer said we couldn’t sue.
Duh? Why would you sue if nothing happened?
@@thalobluebecause you can possibly sue for negligence
@@mercutiodrakmord5291if the negligence didn't cause any damage, there is nothing to sue.
Almost gave me Final Destination vibes.
Mental anguish from that thing falling never trusting it again therefore alot more strain from lifting weights and stopping the lifting part would be even greater mental anguish
Towards the end ... I can't stop laughing at your face! 😂😂😂
If he had tried to get away instead of trying to help he may have been clobbered.
Not sure what the lesson is there...
It's the importance of quick thinking and trusting your gut
lol. yeah quick thinking as he attempts to bicep curl hundreds of pounds
@frankd2624
I think he was trying to roll it backwards to the original resting position, but it was already too late, and with that stance almost certainly too little anyways. 😁
Can’t he sue for emotional distress?
Thanks for the likes guys
Always.
It'd be incredibly hard to prove. Probably cost more in therapist bills to get the diagnosis of PTSD or whatever, than he would actually get from winning a case
You’d need to go to therapy and then sue for the therapy bill
@@trmullins2 you'd have to get an actual diagnosis as well. If your therapist can't determine that it resulted in a psychiatric illness, which has caused you to miss work you won't be able to claim anything
@attorneys work closely with certsin therapists, chiropractors etc. They know to get paid what they have to say and they will say anything that cant blowback on them zareien2290
that's why it's important to have a good lawyer. They always find loopholes 😂
Potential for damage/harm should be a suable offence.
Dude skipped every physics class possible in his life
Racks are normally bolted down to the ground, those safety bars are often used to do rack pulls, so him having a loaded bar there is fairly common.
Exactly! Why did he grab the barbel instead of the bar overhead? Torque my man.
@@davids8994 In that situation your mind will most likely assume that the reason it's falling is due to the weight and go to secure it. Another reason could be that he didn't want the weight rollin off if he held the structure possibly falling on his leg
It’s called a squat rack. This guys never even sniffed a gym before
its actually called a power rack lol, love when people are so confidently wrong. Google is free
He's a nerd.
nah its a doohickey now
Now sit down, because this may very well come as a shock...
It's actually possible to go to the gym and get into peak physical condition without ever once using any of the doohickeys or bothering to learn their names.
I know. I was as surprised as you, but here we are.
Why are gym bros so insufferable lol? I go to the gym quite often and don’t know the name of most of the doohickeys either. I just do my workout and leave
I think one counter to the suit could be that the weight rack has a weight limit, as in, the bar can only support so much before this occurs.
Also please check your gym contracts. Some have a limit for lifting on certian equipment. If you are over that limit you also wont be abke to sue
Bolted down and had the proper cross bars. Power racks are supposed to have the variable crossbars that affix between the frame so the weight stays within the frame. Those safety bars were likely cannibalized from another rack intended for lighter weight.
The fact that in the video you can clearly see anchor points for bolts to be threaded through, too
We've all seen your guns, Ugo. You can just use the technical names for the equipment instead of pretending like you don't know what they are!
Bro was in the absolute perfect spot for that thing to fall down, suspicious or not, wow.
I think there might be some potential grounds for emotional distress depending on just how much of a threat that falling equipment was.
No injury. No lawsuit.
Looks like a maintenance problem right there, which comes under one of the gym's primary responsibilities .
"Doohicky," i haven't heard that in 15+ years 😂
My guy has no understanding of physics trying to stop it falling on it's pivoting point
You can even see that there are holes for those bolts you recommended in it, that conspicuously were not in use
"A really strong (*doing faces* 🤔🤨😏😉) and buff guy"
He had quite a few plates on there. Some gyms ban power lifting as it can be damaging to the floors. So maybe he wouldn’t be allowed to have that much weight
As someone who frequents the gym I can confirm this guy is uninformed on how to properly use a squat rack. You always make sure there is counterweight to counterbalance the squat rack or that squat rack itself is bolted into the floor.
I love Ugo calling the squat rack, and the guar bars do hickeys that hilarious, he always makes me laugh
This is a safety feature improperly installed. He had the weight on the safety bars, which are there to save your life when you can't get the weight up and off you. This can cause tipping, so the rack is supposed to be bolted to the floor or otherwise secured. The risk was known, the mitigation is standard even for home gyms. This is negligence, and that man could've died.
My back hurts watching this. Class action!
Question: would it be possible for the dude to go the manufacturer of the equipment and sue the gym through the manufacturer?
The reasoning could be something like ‘the inappropriate use of our equipment has brought negative impact upon our market reputation, hindering our chances for further sales. Thus we demand bla bla dollars in compensation for our damaged reputation and for the potential profits that were lost’
Gym equipment has a weight limit in holding positions. So Yes it has to be bolted down to the ground but there's still a point to where it will only be able to hold certain amount of weight certain position.
my man looks clearly mentally distraught and traumatized with PTSD attacks every night, he deserves millions in court
"Do-hicky", nailed it Hugo, good job!😅